Descriptive Summary
Access
Publication Rights
Preferred Citation
Acquisition Information
Scope and Content
Project Information
Indexing terms
Bibliography
Descriptive Summary
Title: South Pasadena Local History Images Collection
Dates: Circa 1875-1990
Dates (Bulk): Circa
1890-1940
Collection Number: Consult
repository.
Collector:
South Pasadena Public Library
Collection Size:
Approximately 1200 items in the collection, including
photographs, postcards, and printed ephemera.
Repository:
South Pasadena Public Library
1100 Oxley Street
South Pasadena, CA 91030
Phone: (626) 403-7340
Fax: (626) 403-7331
URL: http://www.ci.south-pasadena.ca.us/library
Abstract: The South Pasadena Local History Images Collection includes
photographs, postcards, brochures and other materials of historical interest on the
City of South Pasadena and its environs from approximately 1875 to 1990, with the
bulk of the materials from 1890 to 1940. The images in the collection document South
Pasadena's early city life and residents, its historical houses and landmarks, and
its streets, homes, businesses, public buildings, churches and schools. Significant
subjects in the collection include South Pasadena's early city life and development
before 1915, its Cultural Heritage Landmarks and other historic architecture, and
the Raymond Hotel and the Cawston Ostrich Farm.
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these
materials, please consult the Local History Librarian of the South Pasadena Public
Library at 626-403-7359.
Languages: Languages represented in the collection: English.
Access
Collection is open for reesearch.
Publication Rights
Property rights reside with the South Pasadena Public Library. Publication rights
are retained by the creators of the records and their heirs. For permission to
reproduce or to publish, please contact the Local History Librarian of the South
Pasadena Public Library at 626-403-7359.
Preferred Citation
Suggested citation of these records is: [Identification of item], South Pasadena
Historic Photographs Collection, South Pasadena Public Library, South Pasadena,
CA.
Acquisition Information
The collection was created by the South Pasadena Public Library staff as part of the
Local History Digital Resources Project of the California State Library and the
Online Archive of California, from 2001 through 2008. For information regarding the
acquisition of particular items, or to discuss donating images to the collection,
please contact the Local History Librarian of the South Pasadena Public Library at
626-403-7359.
Scope and Content
The South Pasadena Local History Images Collection includes photographs, postcards,
brochures and other materials of historical interest on the City of South Pasadena
and its environs from approximately 1875 to 1990, with the bulk of the materials
from 1890 to 1940. The images in the collection document South Pasadena's early city
life and residents, its historical houses and landmarks, and its streets, homes,
businesses, public buildings, churches and schools. Significant subjects in the
collection include South Pasadena's early city life and development before 1915, its
Cultural Heritage Landmarks and other historic architecture, and the Raymond Hotel
and the Cawston Ostrich Farm.
Formats of the items digitized include photographs, photographic negatives and glass
plates, color slides, postcards, printed ephemera such as souvenir brochures and
marketing materials, and manuscript correspondence. Photographs primarily document
early city life and many of South Pasadena's historically and architecturally
significant buildings and cultural heritage landmarks. Postcards, printed ephemera
and correspondence items primarily document tourism and travel to South Pasadena,
especially the Cawston Ostrich Farm, the Raymond Hotel, Busch Gardens, and historic
houses and buildings. The bulk of the photographs were taken by commercial
photographers, such as Truman Keith, Herbert J. Kenney, Edgar Bowman and the Graham
Photo Company of Los Angeles. Many are associated with original glass plate or film
negatives.
Items were selected initially from a wide range of historical collections housed in
the South Pasadena Public Library, particularly the Cawston Ostrich Farm Collection
of Herbert J. Vatcher, the South Pasadena Cultural Heritage Commission Collection,
the American Legion Post 140 Collection, South Pasadena city department files, and
the South Pasadena Public Library's vertical files. Additional individual images
were donated or loaned by South Pasadena residents. Unpublished guides and indexes
to photographic collections from which items were selected are available at the
South Pasadena Public Library. Consult the library for more information.
Project Information
These photographs were selected, conserved, digitized and catalogued from various
photograph collections in the South Pasadena Public Library's Local History
Collection. The project was part of the California Local History Digital Resources
Project (LHDRP), a multi-year program supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and
Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act,
administered in California by the State Librarian. Leveraging the infrastructure of
the CDL in partnership with Califa, the LHDRP explores a model to aggregate,
preserve, and provide permanent public access to local history materials maintained
by California cultural heritage institutions via a single statewide online access
point. For more information about the LHDRP, see
http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/oac/lsta/ .
South Pasadena Public Library began its South Pasadena Local History Images
digitization project began with previous LSTA funding in 2000-2001 and 2002-2003,
which allowed the Library to select, conserve and digitize approximately 800
photographs from its historical collections and from photographs loaned by South
Pasadena residents during a "Photo Day" in 2001. Digitization for the first items
was performed by AIM, Inc., of Pasadena, California. These images are available
in-house at South Pasadena Public Library. Of these, approximately 400 have received
initial cataloguing on an in-house database.
Under LHDRP grant funding for 2007-2008, an additional 200 images were selected,
digitized and catalogued. Digital objects were created and catalogued from these 200
images and from 100 of the earlier items, using CONTENTdm, a digital asset
management tool shared by LHDRP participants. The cataloging conforms to the CDL's
Guidelines for Digital Objects specifications for descriptive and copyright metadata
(see
http://www.cdlib.org/inside/diglib/guidelines/ ). Digitization for the
2007-2008 images was performed by Northern Micrographics, Inc., using flatbed
scanners. For each physical item, multiple digital image files were created: a TIFF
master, two JPEG access images, and a GIF thumbnail image. Digital image files
conform to the CDL's Guidelines for Digital Images (see
http://www.cdlib.org/inside/diglib/guidelines/bpgimages/ ).
Indexing terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection:
Names & Places:
South Pasadena (Calif.)--History
South Pasadena (Calif.)
South Pasadena Public Library
Cawston Ostrich Farm
Raymond (Hotel: Pasadena, Calif.)
Subjects:
Historic buildings
Houses
Hotels
Ostrich farms
Ostriches
Tourism
Forms of Materials
Photographs
Postcards
Brochures
Advertisements
Maps
Letters
Bibliography
Additional information regarding the history of the City of South Pasadena and the
South Pasadena Public Library may be found in the following publications:
Books:
Apostol, Jane.
A Centennial History: 1888-1988. South Pasadena, CA:
South Pasadena Public Library, 1987.
Apostol, Jane.
Centennial, 1895-1995: The South Pasadena Public Library, Its
First Hundred Years.
South Pasadena, CA: South Pasadena Public Library,
1995.
DVDs/Videos:
Stories From Home: South Pasadena, CA. South
Pasadena, CA: South Pasadena Public Library, 2003.